Electronics Hardware Engineer

Ford; Long Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer for its EVDD team, focusing on automotive electronics design and hardware bring-up. You’ll translate stakeholder needs into robust schematics, perform design validations, and collaborate across engineering teams to ensure production readiness.

The role emphasizes hands-on lab work, power electronics, and strong problem-solving in a fast-paced automotive environment. Hybrid onsite work is required in California.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• Hands-on schematic capture and circuit simulation/analysis tools.
• Experience with RCCA (Root Cause & Corrective Action) and 8D methods.
• Hands-on with electric/electronics systems and lab equipment (DMM, MSO, Logic Analyzer, VNA).
• Familiarity with RS485, UART, CAN, Ethernet communication protocols.
• 5+ years designing automotive electronics.

Responsibilities

• Capture requirements from all stakeholders and translate into technical specs.
• Schematic capture, component selection and design release.
• Research new concepts and bring them to production readiness.
• Perform worst-case design, EOL estimation, thermal calculation, and component selection.
• Collaborate with PCB and mechanical teams to guide layouts.
• Understand and implement power electronic topologies.
• Conduct design fault analysis and support safety activities.
• Hands-on hardware bring-up, characterization, troubleshooting, and failure analysis.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to ensure adherence to specs.
• Support design validation and end-of-line tests.

Skills

Schematic capture

Circuit simulation

RCCA / Root Cause Analysis

Automotive electronics design

Power electronics

Communication protocols

Lab equipment proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Altium

Job description

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

• Capture requirements from all skate holders and translate into technical specifications
• Responsible for schematics capture, component selection and design release.
• Research on new concept and idealization of product, take it to production ready.
• Performing Worst case design calculation, End of life estimation, Thermal Calculation and Components selection.
• Work closely with PCB team and mechanical team to guide, review layouts.
• Understanding and implementing power electronic topologies
• Perform design failure analysis and support functional safety activities
• Hands-on hardware bring-up, characterization, troubleshooting, and failure analysis
• Collaborate with all engineering teams to guarantee adherence to technical specifications.
• Support definition of design validation tests and end-of-line tests specification.
• Prioritizes clear and timely communication with the team when issues or failures arise, facilitating a collaborative approach to identifying solutions and learning from setbacks.

You'll have...

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree with major in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Hands-on skills of schematic capture and circuit simulation & analysis tools.
• Experience with failure investigations and Root Cause & Corrective Action Analysis (RCCA), 8D
• Hands on experience with electric/ electronics systems, and all standard lab equipment’s (DMM, MSO, Logic Analyzer, VNA, Power supplies)
• Familiarity with communication protocols (RS485, UART, CAN, Ethernet)
• 5+ years designing automotive electronics

Even better, you may have...

• Experience with Altium preferred
• Experience with automotive safety controllers – experience with ISO26262 is preferred

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $100,400-$168,000.,

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $118,700-$198,500.,

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $138,800-$232,700.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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